Posted on 03/15/2006 11:50:30 AM PST by sionnsar
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Since I am not Catholic, I don't know the significance of these images or whether they have any particular significance at all.
I guess they wiped his brain when he left the Catholic priesthood!
He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1967. He received Masters Degrees in both philosophy and theology from Aquinas Institute, and later earned a Ph.D. in spirituality, summa cum laude, from the Institut Catholique de Paris. Due to his controversial teachings, he was censured by the Vatican in 1989 and forbidden to teach, and later dismissed from the Dominican order. He was later received as an Episcopal priest by Bishop William Swing of the Episcopal Diocese of California.
Where to begin... my head is spinning. How clueless can a clergyman be?
Just for the record, this individual Fox is infamous for hanging out with a witch named "Starhawk" (AKA Miriam Simos).
He's smoking better stuff than I am.
So, does this mean that Matthew isn't compassionate? Because he crossed the "Enough is enough" line in about, oh, say, the 2nd paragraph?
He was definitely on the killer weed when writing this stuff. The Black Madonna is a peice of ART! Art doesn't HAVE to be a perfect likeness. Else all madonnas would look like a middle eastern woman, right?
I think it was Christopher Johnson who wrote that, not Fox.
The above is what happens when someone loses the faith and then perverts his old religion.
Yes, I remember the glorious day that Fox joined the Episcopal Church. He was on the verge of being excommunicated by the Catholic Church and beat the Magisterium to the punch!
New combinations together? Like your head and your butt?
Because the Black Madonna is black, she addresses the fundamental phobia around race and differences of color and culture that come with race and ethnic diversity.
What are you talking about? They are just paintings of the Virgin Mary with the Child Jesus that are about 1000 years old and candles have been burning in front of it for 1000 years.
Meister Eckhart says: “All the names we give to God come from an understanding of ourselves.” [12] To give God the name “Black Madonna” is to honor blackness and all people of color and to get over an excessive whiteness of soul and culture.
Who gave God the name "Black Madonna"???? Anyone besides you, Matt Fox?
It is also to honor the feminine. Divinity is diverse.
Uhhh...
Diverse in color and diverse in traditions and diverse in gender. God as Mother, not just Father. God as Birther, not just Begetter. Gender diversity is honored by the Black Madonna and so too is gender preference.
Whoa. Who told you this? Were the paintings talking to you?
The Black Madonna, the Great Mother, is not homophobic. She welcomes the diversity of sexual preferences that are also part of creation, human and more than human.
Everything he wrote is disturbing but that last sentence is way out there. After reading it - serious drug abuse is the most reasonable explanation. It's just too bizarre. Thank God that the Vatican kicked him out. Saint Dominic pray for us. Send that dog with the torch to help find these people.
ROFLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! What else is there to say? You know the sad thing was there was not much catechesis done in my old ECUSA parish on the classical articles of faith. But, boy, did 'Ol Matt Fox sure get quoted quite a lot. And the goddess worshipers lapped it all up.
My (former) United Methodist congregation was promoting a "Bible Study" using Fox's Coming of the Cosmic Christ years ago. It was one of the biggest reasons why I left the UMC and have never looked back.
Well, Fox is still a nut, anyhow. A Wiccan friend of mine gave me a couple of his books "just to show me" that Christians really accepted Wiccans.
That might be true I guess . . . if he was a Christian, but he obviously hasn't been one for quite some time.
I can't decide whether to give the books away or just trash them. I've never read (or tried to read) such a farrago of doped-up nonsense. The books are just like this article . .. only 2 or 300 pages of it.
Thank goodness Fox decided to decamp for the Whiskeypalians.
He's not the only one. I hate searching back through blogs on slow dialup, but somewhere... hmmm... found it!
Via titusonenine, it's the liberal Salty Vicar on Letter from a Young Catholic.
| Matthew Fox | Author of the book "Creation Spirituality" and the founder of a movement with the same name, he was investigated by the Vatican and subsequently dismissed from the Dominican Order in 1993. Creation Spirituality has 10 Principles which replace the 10 Commandments, among which are claims of "Divinity is as much Mother as Father" and "That we experience that the Divine is in all things and all things are in the Divine (Panentheism)." Panentheism is an old heresy which has been resurrected in New Age thought. He has "Techno-Cosmic Masses" which "integrates live music, electronica, multi-media imagery and eastern and indigenous spiritual elements to create a multi-cultural, intergenerational and ecumenical form of worship." The real Catholic Mass makes Jesus Christ present in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Fox claims that Christianity has been spiritually destitute ever since St. Augustine came up with the doctrine of original sin. (Friends of Creation Spirituality is also part of Call to Action's Catholic Organizations for Renewal). |
Public Supporters of Dissident Organizations
| Matthew Fox | Supporter of Catholic Organizations for Renewal (Friends of Creation Spirituality). |
Hooo-boy! I see Matthew I-used-to-be-catholic-than-changed-to-episcopalian-but-I'm-really-a-nocount-New-Age-pagan-full-of-myself Fox is blathering nonsense again! He fits right in with a large portion of the current episcopagan "leadership." He doesn't just take a bit of peyote, he downs half a bowlful and then tops it off with a long session with a strong Colombian red from his hookah!
Bugs Bunny had this type of character pegged in his immortal quip: "What a maroon!"
Why do those who hate Christ so much pretend to be Christian? That is what always confuses me. This guy would be much more comfortable in a coven rather than a church.
I will pray for his soul, and those he is leading astray.
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